Anti-LGTBQ activists are planning the mother of all anti-gay/anti-trans campaigns. And leading the charge is Janet Porter, a longtime anti-abortion/anti-gay activist.
People for the American Way’s Right Wing is reporting that at the National Association of Christian Lawmakers National Policy Conference at Liberty University in June, participants in a session “led by radical right-wing conspiracy theorist and anti-choice activist Janet Porter, discussed a plan to enact laws mirroring the one passed in Texas in 2021 that allows anyone to sue a clinic, doctor, or any person who facilitates an abortion for up to $10,000 and apply the same strategy to LGBTQ issues in public schools” (https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/anti-lgbtq-christian-nationalist-plan-allow-anyone-to-sue-teacher-librarian-groomers/).
Porter told attendees that “she has been working with Jonathan Mitchell, the right-wing attorney behind the Texas abortion law, on her efforts to draft this model legislation and she practically cackled with delight as she unveiled her slogan for it: ‘If there is grooming, a lawsuit is looming.’”
“What if, instead of us putting out all these fires in this library and in this school and in this county, what if we stopped it at the source?” Porter said. “What if we put together a bill that says, hey, guess what, if you’re involved in any kind of grooming … if you don’t tell mom and dad what Johnny and Susie are reading, then you’re liable to a lawsuit.”
Porter continued “This addresses the transvestites, the Drag Queen Story Hour, the outside speaker that they bring in from GLAAD or from Planned Parenthood or from whatever the name they pick for the latest homosexual activist group.
“I had been praying for years, ‘How do we address the alphabet mafia?’ You know, the LGBTQRSTD. How do we go after that and get it out of our schools? … We can actually take out the grooming, we take out the pedophilia, the sodomy, it’s all listed in this bill. … Essentially, we’ve got a bill that says if Johnny or Susie comes home with any material that violates this long list of anything from pedophilia to grooming to the LGBT agenda, then guess what? They are opening themselves up to a lawsuit.”
And, she said lawsuits are what they’re going to get. And it’s all legal, in that the Texas bill has not been struck down.
Porter is no stranger to culture war battles. She began her career as the legislative director of Ohio Right to Life in the 1990s, before becoming the national director for D. James Kennedy’s Center for Reclaiming America. Porter later established the group Faith2Action and became a columnist and radio host specializing in extreme right-wing views and countless conspiracy theories.
In 2017, she served as a spokesperson for Roy Moore in his campaign for the United States Senate special election in Alabama, 2017, drawing media attention for repeatedly refusing to answer direct questions about the candidate's publicly stated beliefs. In 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center designated Faith2Action as a hate group for its anti-LGBT stance.
She later lost her radio program when “the Christian network that hosted it objected to her increasing embrace of an extremist Christian movement known as Dominionism, which teaches that Christians are to control all levers of power within society and use those positions to implement public policy that corresponds to the Bible,” Right Wing Watch pointed out.
In 2020, Porter participated in a scheme encouraging citizens to send postcards to five key states to “decertify fraud” in the election. According to Wikipedia, Porter and her cohorts were charging “up to $100 to do so.”
Porter is also known for lobbying for so-called Heartbeat bills and partial birth abortion bills.
The National Association of Christian Lawmakers regularly holds conferences to “plot strategy about how to enact their radical political agenda throughout the country, largely through model legislation that is specifically designed to be taken home by participating state legislators and turned into law.”
Porter’s Faith2Action produced a sitcom, called “What’s A Girl To Do?’ (based on Porter’s book titled “what’s a Girl to Do While Waiting for Mr. Right?”) starring Porter herself,trying to find a love connection. According to its website the show aims “to counter the culture while making people laugh.” With an awkward laugh-track the website touts: “Finally, entertainment without the indoctrination of a godless worldview.”